Democrats Refuse to Allow Skeptic to Testify Alongside Gore At Congressional Hearing

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And when there's a conference discussing the circularity (or "roundness") of the Earth, we should have equal representation from scientists who support the opposing, flatness position.

You know. Morons.

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Worth mentioning...

Monckton's views on how the AIDS epidemic should be tackled have been the subject of some controversy. In an article entitled "The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS", written for the January 1987 issue of The American Spectator, he argued that "there is only one way to stop AIDS. That is to screen the entire population regularly and to quarantine all carriers of the disease for life. Every member of the population should be blood-tested every month ... all those found to be infected with the virus, even if only as carriers, should be isolated compulsorily, immediately, and permanently."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_M...on_of_Brenchley

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The man is a hack.

Yeah I read that - though the characterisation of him in this interview sums up what the author thinks of him.

He's a stereotypical upper-class toff who drinks expensive cognac, goes to "Gentlemen's Clubs" (the sort with lots of high backed leather chairs where men sit in 3 piece suits and smoking jackets reading newspapers and making bets about who can make it around the world in 80 days) and reminisces about the Empire Days.

He probably has Prince Philip on Speed Dial (or most likely - an antique rotary phone).

Edited April 27, 2009 by Private Pike

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Yeah I read that - though the characterisation of him in this interview sums up what the author thinks of him.

He's a stereotypical upper-class toff who drinks expensive cognac, goes to "Gentlemen's Clubs" (the sort with lots of high backed leather chairs where men sit in 3 piece suits and smoking jackets reading newspapers and making bets about who can make it around the world in 80 days) and reminisces about the Empire Days.

He probably has Prince Philip on Speed Dial (or most likely - an antique rotary phone).

That's a great piece...thanks for link.

These parts, especially:

'Margaret Thatcher,' he says, repeating a name never far from his lips, 'who was a rather keen reader of my columns in the Standard, and prone to cut them out and wave them at her colleagues, did so with this one. Not only that, she made a speech to the Royal Society saying we need to study whether this is a problem or not.

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I venture a question. Where, I wonder, does his certainty in his own calculations - he suggests a warming of perhaps 0.6 degrees in the next century, of which man may perhaps be responsible for half - come from?

It comes from his 'training in the scientific method', while reading classics at Cambridge. It comes from his four years leading the policy unit during the high-water mark of Thatcherism in the mid-Eighties, when he was required to develop a stance on 'scientific scams' of all kinds.

Monckton then proceeds for an hour or two to take me in substantial detail through Al Gore's inconvenient errors, stopping en route to highlight the 'codswallop' of the Stern report and the 'spin' of the latest findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which will be signed off in Bangkok this weekend. (The fact that the latter was produced in consultation with 2,500 of the world's foremost climatologists does not deter him for a moment.)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007...w.climatechange